Tarka the Otter

Tarka the Otter PDF Author: Henry Williamson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141359285
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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The classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes.

Tarka the Otter

Tarka the Otter PDF Author: Henry Williamson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141359285
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
The classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes.

Henry Williamson and the FWW

Henry Williamson and the FWW PDF Author: Anne Williamson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Henry Williamson is perhaps best known for his Hawthornden Prize-winning "Tarka the Otter", yet he devoted a major part of his life to fiction which drew closely on his experiences during World War I, including his sequence of novels "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight". His time in the trenches affected him profoundly and, like many young soldiers, he was changed utterly by what he saw. This book draws closely on his letters, diaries, photographs and notebooks written at the time to give an account of life in the trenches of World War I. It also affords an insight into the making of a novelist.

Patriot's Progress

Patriot's Progress PDF Author: Henry Williamson
Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 9780750922340
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This novel of one man's experiences during World War I captures the grim flavour of the ordinary man caught up in a conflict over which he has no control. John Bullock is the archetypal soldier, fighting out of patriotism for a cause he does not understand and facing the terrors of trench warfare.

A Patriot's Progress

A Patriot's Progress PDF Author: Anne Williamson
Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of WW1, A Patriot's Progress presents a uniquely detailed account of life in the trenches.

Henry Williamson and the First World War

Henry Williamson and the First World War PDF Author: Anne Williamson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Henry Williamson is known for his book 'Tarka the Otter', yet his time in World War I trenches affected him profoundly. This book draws on his letters, diaries, photographs and notebooks written at the time to give us a detailed account of life in the trenches of the First World War. It also offers us a rare insight into the making of a novelist.

Winged Victory

Winged Victory PDF Author: V.M. Yeates
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
ISBN: 1908117990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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Experience the chilling combat of World War I from inside an early biplane in this classic novel, by a pilot who lived through the war himself. France, 1914. The war on the land is taking to the skies . . . Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to question the war, and what, or who, he is fighting for. There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918, based very largely on the author’s experiences. Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement—they all are part of a brilliantly told story of war and courage by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps. Praise for Winged Victory “The greatest novel of war in the air.” —The Daily Mail (UK) ‘Beautifully written with a poet’s eye as well as a pilot’s eye.” —Evening Echo (UK) “Not only one of the best war books . . . but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author’s purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.” —Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter

BEAUTIFUL YEARS

BEAUTIFUL YEARS PDF Author: HENRY. WILLIAMSON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033111406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ante's Inferno

Ante's Inferno PDF Author: Griselda Heppel
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1780882408
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Twelve year-old Ante (Antonia) Alganesh has a problem. It’s lunchbreak and Florence’s gang are after her. Desperate for a place to hide, she climbs the forbidden staircase to the old organ loft, where a hundred years ago a boy tumbled to his death. No one will think of looking for her there... Except Florence. Petrified, Ante watches her enemy approach, leaning on the rotten hand-rail. She shouts a warning, but it’s too late. There’s a crash – and a boy appears from nowhere, just as a door opens in the wall behind them. All three find themselves in a tunnel leading to a river bank where people queue to be rowed across by a filthy old ferryman…Forced to bury their differences, Ante and Florence accompany the strange boy, Gil, on a journey he should have taken 100 years ago through the Underworld. Making their way past the Shopping Maul and Multivice Complex, attacked by Cerberus, Harpies, Furies and the Minotaur, all this is bad enough: far worse is the doubt gnawing at Ante’s heart...Ante’s Inferno is a gripping combination of fantasy, Greek mythology and adventure, for children aged 9-12 years old. Author Griselda is inspired by C. S. Lewis and Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth. Ante's Inferno won the Children's award in the People's Book Prize 2013, and the Silver award in the 9-12 year-old category of the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards 2012.

Dandelion Days

Dandelion Days PDF Author: Henry Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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The Gale of the World

The Gale of the World PDF Author: Henry Williamson
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525

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The final volume, volume fifteen, of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He has sold his farm and handed over the proceeds in trust for the family excluding himself. Now living alone on Exmoor he is as ever haunted by the past, and his pro-German views bring him under constant fear of attack. A love affair, the death of his father, and tender relationship with his cousin's two daughters are particularly outstanding in a novel full of incident; and this final novel in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight completes the history of Phillip Maddison while at the same time rounding off an unsurpassed picture of fifty swiftly-changing years.